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Julia Fine

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026
We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Excited to share our recent study of climate role model narratives on social media! academic.oup.com/oocc/advance... @joshettinger.bsky.social @maibached.bsky.social
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Role model narratives are underutilized in Instagram and TikTok climate action posts
Abstract. Role model narratives—stories about specific people taking recommended actions—are a proven communication strategy for encouraging socially benef
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Our latest research, led by @finejulia6.bsky.social, suggests: U.S. federal climate policy & health policy are not well integrated. Better integration can build support for climate policy & maximize mutual benefits. Education, coordination & advocacy are needed to advance climate-health policy.
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Advancing and integrating climate and health policy in the United States: Insights from national policy stakeholders
Many experts have called for integrating climate policy with health policy. We investigated U.S. federal policy stakeholders’ views on these goals and…
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I'm delighted to share our recently published research study on the potential to better integrate health policy & climate policy in the US federal government--for the benefit of all Americans, now and in the future. @finejulia6.bsky.social @joshettinger.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Advancing and integrating climate and health policy in the United States: Insights from national policy stakeholders
Many experts have called for integrating climate policy with health policy. We investigated U.S. federal policy stakeholders’ views on these goals and…
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Sack the Quack

In a land not far away,
Doctors toiled night and day
Curing coughs and curing sneezles,
Not to mention mumps and measles.

In this land, there lived a fellow
Who was so jealous he turned yellow.
Although he had a well-known name,
He himself had earned no fame.

“Drat those doctors!” said the man.
“Science is hard to understand!”
Then he had an awful thought,
A thought he liked an awful lot.

He made a sign that said, “BEWARE
VACCINES AND OTHER STANDARD CARE!
INSTEAD, JUST DRINK RAW MILK AND TAKE
IVERMECTIN AND VITAMIN A!”
A mad king happened to see the sign.
He thought, “This is my kind of guy.”
He hired the charlatan then and there
To post more signs up everywhere. 

People weren’t sure what to think.
Was raw milk really safe to drink?!
For a while, some were fooled.
They followed all his random rules.

But soon enough, they realized
He had told them bold-faced lies.
Vaccines were safe; raw milk was not.
The more they learned, the madder they got.
Meanwhile, the doctors got together
And wrote a sternly worded letter.
It said in no uncertain terms,
“This man’s brain is full of worms.”

“For hard work, he does not care.
He would rather poke a bear.
Our nation’s health is under attack.
Enough’s enough—let’s SACK THE QUACK!”

“Yes, indeed!” the people cried.
“Enough’s enough—we nearly died!”
They called their reps. They organized
So no one would fall for the charlatan’s lies.

And did the people succeed in their task?
That’s up to you. That’s why we ask:
Pick up the phone, sit back, relax,
And tell your Congressman: “SACK THE QUACK!”
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Impeach Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (UPDATED 8/31) ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates August 31, 2025: On Thursday, September 4th, RFK Jr. will testify before the Senate Finance Committee. August 28, 2025: After only four weeks …
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Great new research by my colleague @joshettinger.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says
Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate
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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info · 25/08/2025
Today we approach the 20th anniversary of Katrina, FEMA workers across the nation sound the alarm on unqualified leadership, interference w/ ability to execute, our mission,staff cuts & more. Join us in signing The Katrina Declaration. #katrinadeclaration www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
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Support the FEMA Katrina Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In the wake of the attack on the CDC, HHS employees are speaking out against RFK Jr.'s reckless spreading of the same anti-vax misinformation that motivated the attacker. Non–HHS employees can sign as well. www.savehhs.org/read-the-let...
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Read the Letter — Save HHS
Public servants and allies are standing together to demand work environments free from violence, accountability for leaders and policymakers who put everyday Americans in danger, and public health lea...
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
wrote about Trump's attack on DC. It's not a "distraction"; it's part of a fascist program focused on targeting the marginalized for massive displays of force and cleansing violence. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-inv...
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Trump’s Invasion of DC Is Not A Distraction
Fascists build power by targeting the powerless.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
At the NIH vigil today. This is what we're fighting for. @nihvigils.bsky.social
A person attending the NIH vigil holds a sign saying "NIH research saved my life/Fund NIH!"
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Good Scientific American story about the letters of dissent from 4 federal science agencies (to date)... www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
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Federal Science Workers Say Agencies Are ‘Going in the Wrong Direction’
Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation have signed public letters to leadership opposing the direction in ...
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 21/07/2025
NASA & her beloved caretakers have issued the NASA VOYAGER DECLARATION, a letter of formal dissent as defined in NASA Procedural Requirement 7120.5F. They join NIH & EPA in voicing their clear objection to the illegal & immoral objectives of the Trump administration.
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Support the NASA Voyager Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Your solidarity with the NASA heroes helps their fight to preserve NASA's vital missions.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Show up to support NIH scientists this Monday in their resistance efforts. actionnetwork.org/events/bethe...
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Bethesda Declaration Roundtable Support
Join us for the Bethesda Declaration Roundtable rally! Support the Bethesda Declaration Signer in standing up for the NIH mission. On June 9th, NIH workers released the Bethesda Declaration, an open ...
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Bethesda Declaration signers stand with the EPA 139.
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Climate Solutions @climatesolutions.org · 09/07/2025
NIH’s National Cancer Institute, which is facing censorship and funding cuts, has found that particulate matter air pollution causes DNA-level damage tied to lung cancer in non-smokers. Read @insideclimatenews.org @keerti_gopal’s article here: insideclimatenews.or...
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NIH Scientists Link Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Mutations in Non-Smokers - Inside Climate News
Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that particulate matter pollution impacts lung cancer at the DNA level.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/07/2025
On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.
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Canceled grants get the spotlight at a Capitol Hill 'science fair'
On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 08/07/2025
Today in DC, we joined over 20 scientists whose research grants were canceled by the Trump admin. They shared what’s at stake when science is politicized, and what we lose when solutions to our biggest problems are cast aside. #StandUpForScience
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 07/07/2025
Good morning electeds and staff. The time to loudly sound the alarm that the cuts to NOAA and FEMA have made our communities less safe and puts us all at risk, is today. Right now.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The horrors persist, but so do we.
Signs mourning the loss of funding for biomedical research at the weekly NIH vigil
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Politico @politico.com · 03/07/2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is claiming he suffered “severe beatings,” sleep deprivation, malnutrition and other forms of torture at the hands of his jailers.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes ‘severe beatings’ and ‘psychological torture’ in Salvadoran prison
Abrego submitted a harrowing and detailed account of abuse after the Trump administration illegally deported him.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
NEW: per multiple sources, apparently there may be punishment/retaliation coming for EPA employees who signed the Declaration of Dissent this week. People are starting to get letters putting them on administrative leave, seems like potentially targeted at those who signed with their names.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
EPA employees are courageously speaking out against Administrator Zeldin's undermining of their life-saving work. I just signed their declaration, as can anyone who wishes to show solidarity. www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
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Support EPA Staff Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Your solidarity with the EPA heroes increases the pressure on their Administrator Lee Zeldin.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)
Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Invitation to attend a vigil commemorating the lives and knowledge lost through the NIH cuts, on Saturday at 10 am at the Medical Center Metro.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
NIH vigils are going strong, every Saturday at 10 outside the Medical Center Metro. All are invited!
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Support for stricter environmental regulations outweighs opposition in a majority of states
Nationally, 60% of Americans say stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost, while 38% say they cost too many jobs and hurt the economy.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Health professionals: It's time to speak up for climate action. How? Join us at the Medical Society Consortium for Climate and Health and we will get you engaged. #StrongerTogether www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khyz... @docsforclimate.bsky.social @lisapatel.bsky.social @bfrist.bsky.social
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Health Professionals, It's Time to Speak Up for Climate Action
YouTube video by Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
NEW: Dozens of staffers walked out of Jay Bhattacharya’s first town hall event on Monday after the NIH director said he believed the lab leak conspiracy theory. We got video. www.importantcontext.news/p/i-believe-...
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“I Believe It”: NIH Director Pushes Lab Leak Conspiracy At Contentious NIH Town Hall As Staffers Walk Out
Dozens of NIH staffers walked out when Jay Bhattacharya promoted the unproven COVID origins story; others protested research cuts.
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NIH Fellows United @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Academic workers across the country are calling 📞 Legislators to ask them to sign on to bipartisan letters ✉️ in support of robust NIH funding and opposing the 15% indirect cost caps. Take 5 minutes to call your legislators today. Deadline is May 19th. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
As of December, more than half of registered voters wanted federal agencies to *increase* their efforts to protect people from the health harms of climate change.
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A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming
55% said federal agencies should do more to protect people from the health harms of global warming.
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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 14/05/2025
RFK lied to the American people. He said they haven’t fired scientists. That must be news to the scientists he fired.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“RFK has failed as a leader and needs to be removed. I am sick of the lies, sick of not being able to do my work, sick of the constant attacks…but we will not give up.” –My husband, @ianlmorgan.bsky.social, at a rally with @alsobrooks.senate.gov Could not be more proud!
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“Sick of It” with Senator Angela Alsobrooks
YouTube video by Senator Alsobrooks
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.
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Julia Fine @finejulia6.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Beautiful and powerful memorial at the NIH today for what’s been lost through the cuts. This will be a weekly occurrence.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025
🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Philadelphia Science Action @philadelphiascienceaction.substack.com · 22/04/2025
"Climate change is not a future problem. It is a NOW problem [...] When we defund weather, climate, & environmental research, we blindfold ourselves in the middle of a burning house." #EarthDay op-ed from @irinaclimatemom.bsky.social & @michaelemann.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/philadel...
satellite photo of the Atlantic Ocean with the article title, "This Earth Day, we must fund science and our planet's future."
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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I have a friend at the NIH who works on studying and treating the rare disease, muscular dystrophy. His contract expires today on Easter. Tomorrow, he may not have a job. His work will be lost, and patients with muscular dystrophy will have to wait that much longer for relief. 1/11🧪
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17/04/2025
I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.
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I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/04/2025
Calling my senators and telling them to filibuster the SAVE act.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
what a visual
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Indivisible Santa Barbara @indivisiblesb.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Here's how you end a Hands Off! demonstration, Santa Barbara style. Thanks to the Society of Fearless Grandmothers, who organized the human alphabet and took the drone shots! #indivisible #handsoff
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/03/2025
Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges. There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
Chart showing double the number of protests in 2025 than occurred during the same time period in 2017.
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